Knockballynoe House

Detached three-bay two-storey house, built c.1860, with recent hipped porch to front and single-storey lean-to extension to rear. Pitched slate roof with rendered chimneystacks and cast-iron rainwater goods. Painted pebbledashed walls. Square-headed window openings with replacement uPVC windows and painted sills. Square-headed door opening to porch with replacement uPVC door. Rubble limestone walls flanking house with pointed arch pedestrian gateways with yellow brick voussoirs to arches. Wrought-iron gate to western integral archway and replacement timber battened door to eastern. Outbuildings arranged around courtyard to rear of house. Three-bay two-storey north range with hipped slate roof and timber battened fittings, single-storey carthouse to west with blocked segmental brick-arched carriage entrance and having recently reslated hipped roof and L-plan multiple-bay single-storey east range with pitched and hipped slate roofs with louvered timber windows and battened timber door. Round-arched pedestrian gateway to north range of outbuildings with red brick voussoirs to arch and wrought-iron gate. Replacement wrought-iron gate set to roughly-dressed limestone gate piers and rubble limestone walls to front of site.

Although modernised and extended the original form of this well-proportioned house is still discernable. The pointed arch gate entrances flanking the main house are noteworthy features and having been restored contribute to the setting of the house by deliberately dividing the garden from the farmyard. The well-presented stone outbuildings arranged around an enclosed yard still serve different purposes and in conjunction with the house represent the a prosperous working farm.